How are you guys grounding the bridge on your Tele builds?

[Ed Alvarado]

I've been making a little loop with the cloth wire from Acme and putting it between the bridge and a pick up spacer and soldering the other end to ground. I'm interested to hear what you guys are doing.
Thanks in advance!

[Old Tele man]

...wire from jack throug hole under bridge plate...make SURE it's in "contact" with the metal!

[Don A]

I just let the metal plate on the bridge pickup take care of it.

[RAILhead]

Erlewine suggests using some thin wire and wrapping it around one of the screws that hold the bridge to the body, as this helps keep the wire in place.

[walterw]

even if the pickup has a baseplate, i always separate out the bridge ground (including said baseplate) from the pickup negative and run another wire for it; that way, if i ever need to change the wiring (polarity reverse say, or series) i can do it without taking the whole bridge assembly off.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Originally Posted by walterw

even if the pickup has a baseplate, i always separate out the bridge ground (including said baseplate) from the pickup negative and run another wire for it; that way, if i ever need to change the wiring (polarity reverse say, or series) i can do it without taking the whole bridge assembly off.

I need to start doing this on all mine, also. I've been adding that extra ground lead on all the Tele neck pickups, but I sometimes won't know in advance that I will substitute a neck humbucker with a braided ground lead - so I should do the tele bridge pups as you described, as a routine.

Good idea. Not hard to do a whole batch of them ahead of time, really. Or buy Bill and Becky Keystones; they're already done like that.

[GuitarsFromMars]

Originally Posted by walterw

even if the pickup has a baseplate, i always separate out the bridge ground (including said baseplate) from the pickup negative and run another wire for it; that way, if i ever need to change the wiring (polarity reverse say, or series) i can do it without taking the whole bridge assembly off.

This is the way I do it.

[mellecaster]

This has always worked well for me

[Keyser Soze]

Originally Posted by Don A

I just let the metal plate on the bridge pickup take care of it.

This.

Verify continuity between the bridge PU ground wire and the strings with a DMM then you are good to go.

[Southern ILL]

Originally Posted by mellecaster

This has always worked well for me

Yep....works the best for me too.

[Structo]

Yes I thought the pickup grounded through the baseplate that is screwed to the bridge plate?
What is gained by adding the extra wire?

[teleblaster]

I still dont get all this. Does the bridge plate ground with the screws already.Stock teles dont have this extra wire. I guess iam missing something here. My esquire is perfectly quiet without this extra wire

[Ed Alvarado]

Thanks for all the input guys, I really appreiate it!